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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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Amy Sillman

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

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That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

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All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

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You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.

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Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress. " It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.

Feeling, Feelings, People, Read, Representation, Sign
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